Hi Pali, On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 4:30 PM, 4ernov <4er...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, Pali, > > Unfortunately, I didn't work at it since the previous time we > discussed new changes (the beginning of summer, I believe). So, the > state of port is like: the main code is generally ported by Harish, I > fixed a couple of plugins, so there's some other plugins remaining (as > we've discussed the previous time) and it would also require some > efforts on sorting out icons, themes etc., as there're plenty of > warnings of duplicated icons, changed CMake notation etc. It seems to > be simple, but a big careful task to look at Breeze and Oxygen themes > to see, if there's now global icon for some internal Kopete icon for > action. > > I planned to do these main remaining measures this autumn, still keep > postponing starting it, but hopefully I'll look at it during a couple > of weeks next, at least in terms of code of the remaining plugins. > > As for the future, I must admit, I nearly lost the motivation to write > for any Qt and KDE-related projects. I mean, Kopete is really great > project and worked flawlessly for me for many years, as well as few > other KDE-based projects, which I love, but recent changes in Qt, KDE > and the style if their development make me really upset and quite > sceptical about their future. So, I'm afraid, I wouldn't be able to > contribute to Kopete as well. > > 2016-10-22 13:44 GMT+03:00 Pali Rohár <pali.ro...@gmail.com>: >> Hello, >> >> what is current state of effort on porting Kopete to KF5? Sadly, I too haven't had the chance to work on the kopete codebase ever since Alexey volunteered to help and I don't see that changing anytime soon either, as I'm now employed and no longer a student with lots of free time. The only time I might get to do KDE related work would be during the weekends and frankly that's not really ideal.
Having said that, Kopete is not that far from getting ported. I remember porting the main libraries(libkopete and kopete) to KF5 and almost all, if not all, plugins were ported too. The kopete protocols probably need some porting. Alexey did port Jabber and Oscar protocols IIRC and a few others are already broken, so you wouldn't get down to porting them anyways. I do hope kopete gets ported to KF5 soon. Perhaps it might be a good idea to publish them as tasks for this edition of the Season of KDE or the upcoming GSoC, as long as we're able to find mentors for the same. The other option would be that the currently active developers get together at a sprint or organize one and finish the port. Even if a small group of people work on the port for say a week, I'm sure that'd lead to kopete getting ported to KF5 by the end of the event. Again, I put forward these suggestions but I'm not sure how feasible they might be. My 2 cents here. Cheers, Harish
